Word: riot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while Maverickos were standing on the record, ex-Mayor Quin was buttonholing Mexicans in the Mexican district, Negroes in the Negro quarters. He had the support of Harvard-educated Negro Boss Valmo Bellinger. Quin's men made the most of San Antonio's worst riot, when Maverick insisted on permitting a Communist rally at San Antonio's auditorium, until townspeople and legionnaires broke it up in spite of the entire police and fire departments. Maverickos were sure the rally, although not forgotten, had been forgiven...
...Aires showed a rowdy Universal picture Argentine Nights, starring the muggish Ritz Brothers and hollering Andrews Sisters, which was made in Hollywood last year with one eye on Latin-American trade. The Argentine audience sneered, whistled, booed. On the second night there was so much racket that a police riot squad stopped the show in the middle. Next day the municipal authorities got the theater to withdraw the picture...
...previous years, the Smoker has often been the signal for a riot. Last year's affair culminated in the arrest of seven men and a riot lasting the major part of the night, and required 60 special Cambridge policemen to break...
...time of the Gallup riot and this alleged kidnapping, I was in charge of the whole investigation...
Federal Conciliator James Dewey rushed to Detroit, earnestly conferred with Michigan's Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner, company men and union leaders, trying to find some formula for a truce before riot ran rampant at Rouge. Finally the company agreed to close the plant and negotiate tentatively, the union agreed to remove the barricades and send maintenance men into the plant to bank fires, keep them going...